{"id":5743,"date":"2017-10-23T19:52:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2017-10-23T19:52:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T19:52:14","slug":"eskimo-artifacts-fantasy-in-a-cold-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/eskimo-artifacts-fantasy-in-a-cold-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskimo artifacts: fantasy in a cold climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1229a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5744\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1229a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1229a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1229a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1229a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1229a-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is part of an article by Susan More in the Sep 29, 2017 <em>Financial Times<\/em>. Both masks are Yup&#8217;ik and, if you found one, it better be a recently-made fake or you surely wouldn&#8217;t be able to afford it.<\/p>\n<p>These are more Surreal than we are!, an indignant Andr\u00e9 Breton apparently exclaimed when he first encountered a Yup\u2019ik ceremonial mask in New York. It is little wonder that the Surrealists were fascinated by these colored, strikingly adorned artifacts since they are among the most inventive, expressive and fantastical of all tribal arts. We threw ourselves into the poetic atmosphere of the Eskimo masks. We breathe in Alaska, we dream Tlingit, we make love in Haida totem poles. <strong>A+<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1229b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5745\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1229b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1229b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1229b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1229b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1229b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of an article by Susan More in the Sep 29, 2017 Financial Times. Both masks are Yup&#8217;ik and, if you found one, it better be a recently-made fake or you surely wouldn&#8217;t be able to afford it. These are more Surreal than we are!, an indignant Andr\u00e9 Breton apparently exclaimed when he first encountered a Yup\u2019ik ceremonial mask in New York. It is little wonder that the Surrealists were fascinated by these colored, strikingly adorned artifacts since they are among the most inventive, expressive and fantastical of all tribal arts. We threw ourselves into the poetic atmosphere of the Eskimo masks. We breathe in Alaska, we dream Tlingit, we make love in Haida totem poles. A+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-native-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5779,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions\/5779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}